Hands Off Venezuela is holding a UK National Conference in central London on December 3 when at least two hundred delegates, including representatives of the Venezuelan and British trade union movements, are expected to help mark this important milestone and celebrate the successes so far in building solidarity between these two countries.

Leaked internal Pentagon documents have identified Venezuela as a "post-Iraq threat" requiring "full spectrum" planning. The old-young man in the jeep, Beatrice and her healthy children, and Celedonia with her "new esteem", are indeed a threat - the threat of an alternative, decent world that some lament is no longer possible. Well, it is, and it deserves our support. John Pilger on Venezuela.

Fifty people gathered in Edinburgh University to watch "The Revolution will not be Televised" and take part in the debate that followed. This lays the basis for building a strong campaign in Edinburgh.

On November 8, 2005 a remarkable event took place at New Yorks's Town Hall: An evening in solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution, so far the biggest and most important gathering of this kind. The importance of the event was underlined by the fact that there was a lot of media present, ranging from the New York Times to alternative media and the Latinamerican TV station Telesur.

Visiting Venezuela this young comrade has got a taste of the revolutionary fervour that is gripping the country. He has witnessed the masses taking part in political life, masses that have risen off their knees and are challenging capitalism and everything that it represents.

With the Summit of the Americas final declaration, in which five of the continent's largest countries refused to endorse the FTAA, Chavez argued that a significant victory had been won. At the Summit Chavez also spoke to Colombia's president about reports of Colombian secret police activity in Venezuela.

This December marks the anniversaries of two of the most important documents of the United States ruling class’ imperialist policy. These documents epitomize the American imperialists’ paternalistic worldview, which they use to maintain their political and economic interests, and to expropriate the markets, raw materials and labor of the peoples of not only the western hemisphere but of the world. That is why the US Hands Off Venezuela Campaign is working with the Latin American Solidarity Coalition to get organizations and individuals to take up the call for a series of events around the anniversary.

More than 400 people from 235 worker occupied factories and 20 different national trade union centres participated in the “First Latin American Gathering of Worker Recovered Factories” in Caracas on October 27-29 This was truly a historical meeting, the first time that workers involved in factory occupations in different countries met to discuss their problems, share their experiences and draw political conclusions from their struggle. And such a meeting could only take place in revolutionary Venezuela where it had the support of Chavez’s Bolivarian government.

The Construction and Energy division of the Australian Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, passed a resolution in solidarity with Venezuela. The resolution is broadly based on the ones passed earlier this year by a number of British trade unions and finally passed unanimously at the British Trades Union Congress (see Motion 79). We hope this resolution will spread throughout the Australian union movement.